Dump-cart.



L. H'. & A. YOUNG.

DUMP CART.

APPLIOATION FILED PEB.29,1908.

938,198. Patented 0615.26, 1909.

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'UNITED H. YOUNG AND ADELAD YQUNG, OF HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, ASSIG'I'ORS- Lon'eNzo PATENT OFFICE.

DUMP-CART.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 26, 1909.

Application filed February 29, 1908. Serial No. 418,573.

To all whom it may concern.' A

Be it 'known that we, Lorenzo H. YOUNG and ADELAID YOUNG, citizens of the United States, residing` at Hagerstown, in the county of VashingtonI and State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dump-Carts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in dump carts, of that class upon which we have received United States LettersPatent Number 835,999, dated November' 13, 1906, and the object ofthe present invention is to provide improved mechanism for a dumping cart which will be automatically reset to retain-the cart body in position when the body is swung backwardly automatically after the load is dumped.

.AnotherV object of the present invention "is to providethe lower portion of the end gate with perforated trunnions adapted for 'thereception of pivoted arms or links, which may be readily removed from the trunnions to cause the end gate to act as a valve for regulating the dumping of only a quantity of the 4contents of the cart, or to actas a shield to prevent the contents of the cart being scattered rearwardly as the cart is dumped and to form means whereby the vcontents of the cart may be dumped into ative combina-tion, hereinafter fully describedand claimed.

' In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cart constructed in accordance with our invention, illustrating the body of the cart. dumped in dotted lines and the position of the end gate when the cart is dumped. Fig. 2 is a bottom planv view of the cart. Fig. 3 is a vertical section showing the latch mechanism and operating bar.

: Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of the connection of the end gate with the sides of the cart.

The frame of the vehicle comprises the shaft or thills 1, connected at their rear ends by the bolster 2 and in advance thereof by a cross bar 3. -An axlel is suitably fixed beneath the bolster and carries the supporting wheels 5.

The body 6 is pivotally mounted upon the frame in rear of the bolster E. as indicated at 7,A the pivotal point being arranged slightly in rear of the transverse center of the body, as shown. The body is closed at its front end and open at its rear end and preferably'increased gradually in depth toward the forward end, so thaty the weight of the load will be so distributed as to remove the strain upon the latch mechanism which holds the body in normal position. The latch mechanism comprises a beveled latch hook 8 carried by the spring arm 9, fixed at its upper end to the front of the body, said latch being adapted to engage a metallic keeper member 10 carried by the cross bar 3, said keeper member having a rounded face 11, over which the latch hook rides when moving into `locking position..

The construction just described is substantially similar to that incorporated in our patent, but we have found, by experience,r

that' the latch hook 8 does not serve a thoroughly effective holding means when the cart is propelled over rough roads, and to assist the latch hook in securing the body of the cart in normal position, we have provided the sides of the cart with L-shaped hooks 1Q and 13, having their open faces oppositely directed, so that a pivoted locking bar 14 bemg swung 1n one direction has both of its ends brought out of engagement with the L-shaped hooks, and when swung inthe opposite'direction is brought into engagement with the hooks. This lever 14 is pivoted to the under face of the cross bar 3 near one of the thills of the cart, and has its center provided with a rounded lip or surface 15, adapted to contact with the rounded face of the llatch hook 8, when the levero 14s is swung upon its pivot, thus disengaging the latch hook from the keeper member 10, as well as swinging the lever 14 out of engagement with the L-shaped hooks, and .allowing the body of the cart toy swing upon its pivots as illustrated in the dotted lines of the drawings.

Fixed to the rear end of the shaft or n -s ul'ipmting arms are connected to the out- 'wardly curved extensions 17, of bifurcated members 18, secured to and near'each end ofthe end gate 1 9, thus providing meansby which the end gate 19 is pivotally supported by the arms 16. The end gate 19 is adapted to close the rear of the body when the latter' .is in its normal position and is provided upon its ends with curved members 20, ada ted to coact with the curved ends 21 of tiie sides of the cart to'y form a close joint to prevent the escaping of any of the load. The lower portion of the gate is y' provided with a transverse bar 22 having va trunnion Or bearing 23, and provided with a reduced extension'24 provided with a vertical opening adapted for the reception of a pin carriedv by a lflexible element 25, andv supported by` connecting links .26,- having their upper ends pivotally ,connected with the sides of the'cart and their lower ends provided 4with annular bearings adaptedfor. engagement with the trunnion 23, and to be retained in position upon the trunnion by the pin engaging the flexible element 25 being tted within the vertical opening of the extensiongi. K By this arrangement, it will beseen that when the cart 1s dumped the end gate will assume the position illustrated in ,the dotted lines'of Fig. l, but it is desirableat times to open tlielgate Without the necessity of dumping the cart Or to have the gate 19 only' open partially, to serve as a valve vfor distributing the load along thel path of the cart, or toI act as--a delector whereby the load is deposited in a small pile 'when the cart is dumped. When these conditions are desirable, the link 26 is removed from its connection with the trunnion 23, and the link allowed to rest in bearings 27, provided ru'pon the lower portions of each side4 ofthe cart.

From the above description it will'be noted that our limproved cart will allow then end gate t0 be raised above the''body of the cart as the load is dumped or will allow the end ate to be opened manually at any desired distance from the end of the cart. .It will be further noted that when the body of the cart returnsI to 4normal osition the latch hook 8 ridin over the `pivot so as to disenfzlgage the vlatc hoo z, from the keeper member and the ends of. the lever 111 from the hooks 12 and 13.

Having thus fully described the invention lwhat is claimed as new is:

In' a dump cart,l thills provided with a cross connecting bar L-shaped l'iookmembers upon the sides of the cart, an eccentrically ee` Ver member 1() c, Vwill contact t e face 15 of t e lever 14, and forcel the. lever to turnupon. its pivot andI plvoted lever upon the cross bar lof lthe thills, a s ring catch connected withthe body of tie cart adapted tocontact -and spring the leverinto engagement with the hooks and to engage beneath the cross bar ofv the thills when the cartwlis swung upon the bolster.

In testimony whereof we aix oursignatures 1n presence of twg witnesses.

LORENZO H. YOUNG.` ADELAID YOUNG. Witnesses: 4 I

` LEWIS STONEBRAKER,

G. I. ANDERSON. 

